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31-3.7 Bursting bubbles, and getting tech to grow up

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/beach-sunset-3605.html] I just wrote a post for NEXT Berlin [http://nextberlin.eu/2014/03/missing-aircraft-we-need-to-get-serious-about-the-internet-of-things/] which has provoked a little more reaction [https://www.facebook.com/nextconf/posts/10152221294013847?stream_ref=10] than normal. I admit – it’s a more

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31-3.6 Time, money and desk space

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/servererror-3592.html] I started this daft writing project with ideas of fighting complacency. It’s too easy to slip into habits in your blogging, to just keep doing what you did before, without any serious attempt to keep pushing yourself forwards.

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31-3.5 Advice for young interactive journalists

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/interhacktives-3584.html] Today, I taught my last formal class for this year’s class of Interhacktives at City University [http://www.interhacktives.com]. The two terms I teach them in have gone astonishingly quickly, but I’ve enjoyed it very much.

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31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/81S5RrVaWUL._SL1500_-3577.html] I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241001773/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=

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31-3.3 Finding a journalistic niche to survive in

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2014/03/fvxvxzS9l7Xw0r8B-3570.html] So, I knew there would be at least one day in this idiotic project of mine [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/03/daily_thrashing_with_the_500_word-stick.html] when it would be really hard to get it done.

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31-3.2 A daily thrashing with the 500 word stick

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/sunrise-over-the-waterside-3567.html] So, here’s a question. Why am I putting myself through the horror of trying to write something substantive for this blog every single day in March? Leaving aside the possibility of an unexplored masochistic streak, the fundamental reason

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31-3.1 The war ended a long time ago, buddy

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/classic-mac-3564.html] I had an odd experience on Facebook the other day. It’s probably the closest I’ll ever come to those apocryphal tales of warriors emerging from the jungles of Asia to discover that the war ended decades ago.